Carpe Noctem Robotic Soccer

As a cousin of mine has founded a company (CrazyButtons) as a school project, I was asked to buy something from their product line. CrazyButtons offers pin buttons with diameters of 1 cm and 6 cm. This morning our 1 cm Team-Buttons arrived:

There are enough for all team members — see you tomorrow at 17:00 [...]

The first very early version of our Shared World Information (SWI) specification is now online. It outlines the data structure we plan to use for inter-team communication. You can find it here: http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/pub/swi.pdf.
The Message Definition Language translation tool (“The TOOL”) will be released later this year.

Our contribution to the institute’s newsletter can be found here:
http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/pub/Newsletter.pdf

The software framework that powered our robots in 2006 is now available for download as a tarball:
http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/pub/CarpeNoctem-2006.tar.gz.
The subversion repository where cleanups will go can be found here:
http://svn.npw.net/cnpublic/
Unfortunately, documentation is scarce and we failed to clean up the code. So good luck for digging into potentially unreadable code :). It is released under a BSD-like license [...]

We’ve arrived in Kassel yesterday at about 9pm. After unloading our baggage and the robots everybody went straight home. It was a very exciting, interesting but also exhausting week. We’ve achieved something we would have never anticipated. The cooperation within the team was very good and the comments from other teams were really motivating.
In the [...]

We are planning to publish our software (used for the RoboCup World Championships this year in Bremen) under some open source license this year. The Brainstormers Tribots published the code they used in the RoboCup German Open 2005 tournament.
If you’re interested in our software framework, please contact us.

Our last match against FU-Fighters ended 0:4 for Berlin. It was real fun, even for the referee. Our robots did very well, the goalie defeated many potential goals for our opponents.
This was our first participation at a RoboCup tournament. We achieved the eighth place which is much more we ever hoped for. At 15:30 we’ll [...]

The last two hours we had two games in a row again. The first against Attempto Tübingen, the second one against CoPS Stuttgart. Both games were vivid and nice to watch. We lost the game against Attempto 0:3, the game against CoPS 0:7. Our performance was not as good as yesterday but it was real [...]

… and we’re one of them! This morning at 10 we scored three goals against The Orient. The final result was 3:1. Bart suddenly smoked like a chimney: cable fire. Afterwards we lost 0:4 against Hibikino-Musashi. During the game the lightning conditions changed, i.e. the sun came out :), and obstructed our players. The (simple [...]

We’ve lost our last game against CoPS Stuttgart with 2:5. It was a great game, six CoPS against four Carpe Noctem Robots and one Ulm Sparrow. We’ve improved a lot in the last hours. After annoying ourselves with stupid networking problems, fighting against lightning and calibration issues, this game showed what we can do.
Our goalie, [...]